Regional News

GOSHEN — Town leaders who were at the Northwest Hills Council of Governments (NHCOG) meeting on Thursday, Feb. 14, expressed their concerns about three bills currently being deliberated in the state Legislature.

The first proposed bill SB-454 was introduced in January by Senate President Martin M. Looney (D-11) and, if passed, would create a commission to implement the regional consolidation of school districts.

The commission would develop a plan to realign school districts that have a total student population of fewer than 40,000 students, except for regional...

Regional News

It was car heaven at McDonald’s in Torrington on Friday, July 15, with a 10th anniversary cruise night. Car owners brought their classic automobiles, including vintage Chevrolets, Trans-Ams and Cadillacs, to the restaurant’s parking lot as music from the 1950s and ’60s was played. The event celebrated the 10th year the Torrington McDonald’s has held cruise nights during the summer.

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BOSTON CORNER — A body was discovered in a parked vehicle alongside Boston Corners Road sometime on Sunday, July 16, by the New York State Parks Police.
An area resident described the vehicle as an older, blue minivan with Connecticut plates, and said it was parked there late last week and through the weekend.
Another area resident provided similar information as the van was being searched by police after the discovery was made.

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Harry Potter fans everywhere got out their capes, wands and spellbooks for the midnight premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the final movie in the series, which opened in local cinemas at 12:05 a.m. on Friday, July 15.
“It was an epic moment in the history of cinema,” said Carol Sadlon, owner of the Torrington Cinerom and the Millerton Moviehouse.
The tickets for The Moviehouse showing were sold out days in advance. Although the movie played in only one theater, crowds of people were lined up outside the doors.

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The call that came in to 911 on a Friday evening was logged as a brush fire. But police and firefighters arrived to find a backyard gathering and a disgruntled neighbor.
The fire was deemed recreational, not out-of-control and not illegal.
The neighbor, one of many close by in the relatively dense neighborhood, said the frequent backyard fires fill his home with smoke odors. He fears the fires are large enough to ignite the tree canopy.

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The 98th running of the Tour de France bicycle race, which began on July 2 and ends on July 24, has had more than its fair share of accidents. All prior years of this worldwide classic had racer accidents, but the 2011 edition seems plagued by many more. The Tour covers 3,430.5 kilometers (2,131.6 miles) throughout much of France. Each leg of the race is called a “stage.”

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HARTFORD — The 6,500 layoffs proposed by Gov. Dannel Malloy to balance the state budget — in addition to their impact on state government — will cut into the budgets of the unions that represent state employees.
The State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition and its member unions recently failed to pass a tentative agreement with Malloy, which led him to propose the layoffs.
Under the tentative agreement, state employees would have faced a wage freeze, which for some unions would have slowed the growth of their income.

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A $25,000 grant from General Electric to the Nature Conservancy will help protect some of the Tri-state region’s wetlands and fens, which are home to a host of rare plants and animals.
The grant was awarded June 8 and comes from the General Electric Foundation.

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After lobbying against changes that would reduce the power of the state’s Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC), the commission’s former executive director, Mitchell Pearlman, said this week that the state of open government in Connecticut remains “one big mess” for the foreseeable future.
Under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s 2011-12 budget, which remains in executive-legislative limbo, the Freedom of Information Commission has been reduced in size and combined with eight other agencies to form a new Office of Governmental Accountability (OGA).

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RIVERTON — Yes, ice cream is now available at the Riverton General Store. The store offers 19 flavors of Beck’s Ice Cream.
Store owner Leslie DiMartino said Beck’s Ice Cream had previously been offered at another local store for more than 20 years. Flavors include mud, swamp, buck tracks, toasted almond and chocolate chip cookie dough.
The store is located at 2 Main St. and is open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, call 860-379-0811

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